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Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Last week the Opposition Whips were told the Social Welfare Bill would be taken on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. During the week we began to hear, not from the Chief Whip but from Government backbenchers, that a different arrangement was planned, whereby the Bill would go through this week. That was to protect them from constituency fire over the weekend. There is an alternative. As...

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: This is the first post-budget strike. The Taoiseach is refusing to answer questions.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: We can arrange that.

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Labour Party does not agree to any proposal on the Order of Business today because of the manner in which the Government is dealing with the budget debate and the arrangements for the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill. We have just had probably the most severe budget in living memory. The least the people who are affected by that budget, those who are having their pay and various...

Order of Business (10 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: -----to express their opinions. It is grossly unfair to the people we represent. I am also somewhat surprised that the way in which the democracy of this House is being abused has not been commented upon by others.

Written Answers — Electric Vehicles: Electric Vehicles (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Transport the role his Department has in the promotion and rollout of the national electric car and vehicle programme; the number of hybrid electric buses funded by his Department; his plans to encourage delivery and service vehicles to switch to low CO2 and electric power vehicles; the size of the national electric vehicle fleet; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Rail Services: Rail Services (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 83: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will report on the proposed forum on rail freight that was mandated to be set up in the policy framework, Smarter Travel, A Sustainable Transport Future 2009 - 2020; the persons who will be members of the forum; the remit of the forum; when a policy document will issue on rail freight; when a target for the development of rail freight here...

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (Alcohol Products) (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: If this were a stand-alone measure, I could see merit in it. I understand there is considerable cross-Border traffic in regard to the purchase of alcohol, that this, in turn, is leading to the purchase of other goods across the Border, and that a reduction in excise might halt and re-balance the situation. However, this is not a stand-alone measure. It has to be seen in the context of the...

Social Partnership Negotiations. (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of his meeting on 20 October 2009 with the social partners. [38395/09]

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach seems to think that the euro that will be taken out of the pockets of families later this evening is different from the one that is paid to the banks. It is not. It is the same euro with a harp on one side and a little picture of Europe on the other. The idea that somehow it is a different kind of money is misleading people. As we are just about five hours away from hearing...

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach would like us to believe that the two things are entirely separate. He talks about recovering money from the banks. I do not know how he will do that because they are already looking for more. Anglo Irish Bank, having got €4 billion, is looking for another €5.7 billion; Bank of Ireland and AIB, having between them got €7 billion, are looking for another €7.2 billion.

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: The people's hard-earned money is being paid over to the banks in whatever form the Taoiseach describes and billions will be taken out of people's pockets this afternoon because the Taoiseach and his party, and their developer and banker friends, have ruined this economy.

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Money from the National Pensions Reserve Fund is being paid over to fund the banks because the Government for the past ten years fuelled a property bubble and stood over irresponsible lending and borrowing, without proper regulation. We are now in a situation where the banks are in trouble and the Government has to beggar ordinary people in order to pay for the economy.

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: When we come in here at 3.45 p.m. to hear the budget, we will hear the high price that the people have to pay for having Fianna Fáil in government for far too long.

Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: It is not as big as the crisis here.

Departmental Staff. (9 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the number of occasions since June 2007 to date in 2009 on which he enhanced payments made to persons retiring or otherwise leaving his Department or an agency operating under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37274/09]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 87: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if legislation has been prepared to allow for the appropriate dissemination of soft information regarding people who may be a threat to children; when it is expected that such legislation will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45542/09]

Written Answers — Capital Projects: Capital Projects (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 95: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the new starts expected in the Capital Programme for her Department for 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45541/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 105: To ask the Taoiseach the number of staff who received financial assistance to pursue courses in further or higher education in each of the past five years; the number of such staff who were subsequently re-assigned to duties appropriate to their new qualifications. [45329/09]

Written Answers — Code of Practice: Code of Practice (8 Dec 2009)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 106: To ask the Taoiseach the State agencies under the aegis of his Department to which the new Code of Practice for the Governance of State bodies applies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45339/09]